While Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin has few modern Western defenders (even as the current Russian government has tried to rehabilitate him), Lenin still has many admirers among Western leftists.

If Lenin had been alive and politically active, he would have waged a pitched battle against the nationalist and anti-Marxist theory of “socialism in one country,” advanced by Stalin and ...

Indeed, Lenin was practically giddy; as the Red Army advanced on Warsaw in 1920, he sent a secret cable to Stalin saying, “It is time to encourage revolution in Italy.

Lenin’s absence was used in 1923-1924 by Stalin and his allies, Zinoviev, and Kamenev—two old Bolsheviks with whom the General Secretary had formed an illegal “triumvirate”—to cement ...

The specific case against Stalin in Animal Farm regards the Bolshevik Revolution. Upon Lenin’s death in 1922, Stalin jockeyed ...

After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin became leader, and Trotsky was forced into exile — he was assassinated by Stalin's agents in Mexico in 1940. Stalin's rule A portrait of Joseph Stalin.

As I wrote last month, this is a staged show trial worthy of Vladimir Lenin who developed the technique (later used to great effect by Josef Stalin) while creating the Soviet dictatorship.

He makes Stalin out to be Lenin’s right-hand strongman, which he was not, while also creating the illusion that Stalin was capable of nimble ideological disputes with Lenin.

The way preeminent military historian Antony Beevor sees it, Mr. Putin is a “dangerous beast” who is trying to undo the mistakes of Lenin and Stalin by erasing Ukraine’s independence ...

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Stalin and Lenin glanced at one another and nodded. “Hitler,” they said in unison, just before Lenin’s head fell off again. “It wasn’t yours to take, Vladimir,” Mother Russia said.

His break came in 2004, when he was hired to impersonate Lenin during Communist Party celebrations of the Soviet leader’s birthday in Red Square. For a few hours’ work, Solovyov found out, he ...